14th Jeonju International Film Festival Announces Shorts Project

Short stories meet film Jeonju International Film Festival has released details of its 'Short! Short! Short! 2013', a project which promotes up-and-coming directors’ new vision. This year the program will consist of short films based on a Korean wr...

Not ‘Movies’ but ‘Yeonghwa’

Korean Cinema showcased at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA), a world-renowned establishment for modern art, will screen 12 Korean films. The title of the event is ‘Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today’ and it will begin on the 19th September until the 30th at the ...

Korean films take over Fantasia, Osian’s-Cinefan

With at least a dozen selections currently screening at each festival, Korean cinema figures prominently in the line-ups at Montreal’s 16th Fantasia International Film Festival and New Dehli’s 12th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Indian, Asian and Arab Cinema. Fan...

LEE Sang-woo’s <Barbie> shines at Giffoni

Director LEE Sang-woo’s fourth feature film, <Barbie>, nabbed a Gryphon Award for best feature film in the Generator +18 section at Italy’s 2012 Giffoni International Film Festival (GIFF). LEE’s win is a first for a Korean film at Giffoni.   This y...

<Fire in Hell> in Official Competition at Moscow

The 34th Moscow International Film Festival will be held later this month from June 21-30, 2012. Director LEE Sang-woo’s latest feature, <Fire in Hell>, has been invited to the festival’s main competition while YUN Ki-nam’s black and white short film &l...